geni wrote:
Editors are people. Being blocked hurts. Haveing your work deleted hurts.
Think about this a bit more. Being blocked hurts. Is it so much of a stretch of imagination to realise that (for some if not most people) being excluded from adminship also hurts? It is, after all, functionally the same as being "blocked" from the extra features.
People probably don't realise this readily because it's a qualitatively different kind of hurting -- it's not a singular event like being blocked or a page being deleted, which is like a stab in the chest which may (or may not) heal. This is different; it's more like a nagging headache that doesn't go away.